My recollection from my own childhood is that there were portable bassinets that were put in the back seat. Child was out of sight, out of mind then, too. But the vast, vast majority of mothers were at home and did not drive around with the child in the back seat, because Dad took the one family car to work each day while Mom stayed home.
We did not have so many divorces back then, and we did not have a society that says it's okay for a father to sire a child and then ease on down the road, so there were relatively few single mothers driving around.
We did not have so many divorces back then, and we did not have a society that says it's okay for a father to sire a child and then ease on down the road, so there were relatively few single mothers driving around. It is a tremendous difference, isn't it? It used to be considered terrible child abuse to have a child outside marriage, cheating the child of two parents.